Grumpy_Mike:
lcd.print(Tmessage);
Expects a string not a character array.
Grumpy_Mike, by the number of my posts, you can see I'm a relative newbie. I don't know the difference. This was the only way I could find to separate the text into two pieces. I thought in C a string was a char array. It does print what I want on the LCD. I'm not sure how this would have any effect on the backlight.
Jim